Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in PHP-Nuke 5.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) uname parameter in user.php, (2) ttitle, letter and file parameters in modules.php, (3) subject, story and storyext parameters in submit.php, (4) upload parameter in admin.php and (5) fname parameter in friend.php.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 2
- PHP-Nuke 1.0/2.5/3.0/4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x - 'user.php?uname' Cross-Site Scripting EDB-21165 · webapps · Dec 3, 2001 · verified
- PHP-Nuke 1.0/2.5/3.0/4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x - 'modules.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities EDB-21166 · webapps · Dec 3, 2001 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20011215 PHPNuke holes mailing-list
- 20011220 1 last CSS hole in PHPNuke :) mailing-list
- phpnuke-postnuke-css(7654) vdb-entry
- 20011216 Phpnuke module.php vulnerability and php error_reporting issue mailing-list
- http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpnuke/PHP-Nuke-5.5.tar.gz
- 20011203 Phpnuke Cross site scripting vulnerability mailing-list
- 3609 vdb-entry